Northern California Community Study, 1977 (ICPSR 7744)

The Northern California Community Study investigated the
effects of urbanism on social networks and social attitudes. To do so,
the study explored the relationship between characteristics and
perceptions of neighborhoods, and the acquaintance patterns, social
activities, and psychological attitudes of residents of particular
neighborhoods in the San Francisco area in 1977. The study focused on
the nonminority population. Part 1 (Respondent File) includes
information obtained in personal interviews with 1,050 persons living
in 50 communities in northern California. Included in this file are
two general categories of variables--those describing the respondents'
experiences in their neighborhoods and locales, and those recording the
respondents' psychological states and feelings of well-being. Part 2
(Name File) contains information about 19,417 persons identified by
the survey respondents in Part 1 as being part of their (respondents')
social networks. Variables include whether the named individuals lived
in the respondents' neighborhoods, and the types of relationships,
interactions, and things in common that the respondents had with the
individuals they named. Part 3 (Community File) contains a data record
prepared for each tract of the sampling frame. The data in the Community file
are summary counts for each tract's total population, total household
population, total housing units, and selected demographic information,
such as the percentage of Black population, percent residing in group
quarters, and mean family income. The file also contains opinions
gathered from the survey respondents about each community, e.g.,
ratings of local services, fear of crime, and the effect of the water
shortage.

The Northern California Community Study investigated the
effects of urbanism on social networks and social attitudes. To do so,
the study explored the relationship between characteristics and
perceptions of neighborhoods, and the acquaintance patterns, social
activities, and psychological attitudes of residents of particular
neighborhoods in the San Francisco area in 1977. The study focused on
the nonminority population. Part 1 (Respondent File) includes
information obtained in personal interviews with 1,050 persons living
in 50 communities in northern California. Included in this file are
two general categories of variables--those describing the respondents'
experiences in their neighborhoods and locales, and those recording the
respondents' psychological states and feelings of well-being. Part 2
(Name File) contains information about 19,417 persons identified by
the survey respondents in Part 1 as being part of their (respondents')
social networks. Variables include whether the named individuals lived
in the respondents' neighborhoods, and the types of relationships,
interactions, and things in common that the respondents had with the
individuals they named. Part 3 (Community File) contains a data record
prepared for each tract of the sampling frame. The data in the Community file
are summary counts for each tract's total population, total household
population, total housing units, and selected demographic information,
such as the percentage of Black population, percent residing in group
quarters, and mean family income. The file also contains opinions
gathered from the survey respondents about each community, e.g.,
ratings of local services, fear of crime, and the effect of the water
shortage.

Access Notes

One or more data files in this study are set up in a non-standard format, such as card image format. Users
may need help converting these files before they can be used for analysis.

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
Please log in so we can determine if you are with a member institution and have
access to these data files.

Universe:
Household residents, aged 18 and older, living in urban
areas of a circular quadrant of northern California extending
approximately 200 miles east and north of San Francisco. Persons
residing on military bases or in predominantly minority communities or
meeting other specified criteria were not included.

Data Type(s):
aggregate data,
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

This collection has been updated to represent ICPSR's current standards. ICPSR and original documentation, SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files, SAS transport (CPORT) file, SPSS system file, Stata system file, and tab-delimited ASCII data file are included.

The Name file (dataset 2) contains identification variables, CASEID and RESPID, with non-unique numbers for several cases. ICPSR created a unique sequential record identifier variable named ICPSRID for use with analysis.

ICPSR cannot confirm the integrity of dataset 3, Community File, and will not include updated documentation, statistical program setup or system files, or the ASCII data file.

Methodology

Sample:
Disproportionately stratified, multi-stage cluster sampling.

Mode of Data Collection:
face-to-face interview

Data Source:

personal interviews and Fourth Count Summary Tapes of the
1970 United States Census

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-03-18

Version History:

2011-10-17 This study has been updated to include the latest versions of ICPSR documentation, SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files, SAS transport (CPORT) file, SPSS system file, Stata system file, and tab-delimited ASCII data file.

2006-01-18 File CB7744.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.